Thomas Bey William Bailey
2014 m. Rugsėjo 23 d., 11:52
Skaityta: 70 k.
I write this post having freshly returned from a few amazing weeks in Stockholm, where I was the guest of the venerable EMS studios and built up a sizable catalog of modular synth recordings to be used in future projects (yes, audio projects…I am still very much alive in that field.) It's impossible, even with this journey at the forefront of my memory, to pick a true 'standout' experience that came from it, and certain categories of experience - such as my exceptional treatment by that sector of the local arts community that I fell into - merit full write-ups all on their own. As I told friends upon my first visit to the city over 10 years ago, it was an inoxicating relief to be in a place where the strength or originality of one's ideas seemed to take precedence over "status" when it came to booking public appearances and the like, and this impression has for the most part held up. To be talked to as a peer among local luminaries (even when they can rightfully claim to be on a higher plateau of accomplishment than myself) is something incredibly rare within an arts world that is no freer from competitive machinations than any other province of human activity.